define luck as unexpected performance and look for an answer in a large survey of entrepreneurs. Accordingly, luck ranks last … become entrepreneurs. Consistent with the definition, what entrepreneurs believe is luck correlates with the unexplained …

What is luck in the opinion of entrepreneurs, how does it affect decisions, and what role does it play in firm … believe luck is important are reluctant to become entrepreneurs, and those who do exhibit lower commitment. Luck perceptions … importance among various determinants of overall entrepreneurial performance. One possible reason is that entrepreneurs do not …

personality traits of owners/managers - risk attitudes, locus of control, and innovativeness - and firm-level decisions. We extend …

promoting: i) micro-entrepreneurship in Brazil; and ii) the formalisation of entrepreneurs. Regarding the promotion of micro … have had a positive effect on the formalisation of individual entrepreneurs in terms of social security contributions, but …

entrepreneurs, managers and employees on a comprehensive set of measures of optimism and overconfidence (n = 2,058). The results … when bad events occur. For incentivized measures of overconfidence we find no difference between entrepreneurs and managers … success are more strongly related for managers than for entrepreneurs and that an average entrepreneur is not more optimistic …